Originally Posted by Gaidax
Originally Posted by Sludge Khalid
The problem of +(anything) due to high ground &/or backstab is the meta gaming. When you get Great Weapon Mastery & Sharpshooter, they sacrifice their accuracy as a trade off for raw damage. If you shoot every single time with advantage means that instead of a trade off you’ll gain reliable damage. Meaning there’s no sacrifice in actions at all. You’ll never bet against the system. Also, if they implement elven accuracy, oh boy...

There are also classes that directly benefits from the advantage like Barbarians, Samurais, crowd control based classes (bards, Wizards, etc)
With that homebrew rule the game is forcing you to follow that path otherwise you gonna fail miserably. Remember that the foes will also take advantage of that. I’m seeing the 4 finesse battlemasters the easiest party composition & bards and Barbarians dropping from the A tier to D tier.

What would be “reasonable” is +raw damage instead of 2d20. That keeps the tactical positioning in the meta without causing a chain reaction in DnD5e core rules.



My problem with responses like this is the fallacious assumption 5e is some sort of balance perfection.

All Larian homebrew will do is maybe flip a crown from one bunch of kings of the hill to another. BTW, GWM weapons are not supposed to get the positioning rule advantage in BG3, them being affected now is a bug.

Here's relevant in-game tooltip:

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IMO, it's excellent because so many most busted DPR builds revolve around GWM, while light weapon and martial ranged users are usually left in the dust. Maybe it will even things out a tad.


That’s again blaming the current balance of 5e balance...
Martial ranged left in the dust? Have you ever heard of sharpshooter? 10 out 10 consider this feat the strongest in the game. Way more high rated than GWM